The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-08-18
VOL. II. NO. so.
CURRENT TOPICS

~'fSN PoiiSo Nlhinl 70 nave routed every
opium joint In that city.
SIMON cAMEnoS, the veteran Senator, is
being honized In London.
CoFTEg IcE CREAM is a novelty; brown
bread leo cream IL another.
TnSRE are twenty murdcrors In the Now
York Tombs awaiting trial.
NEW YoRK miss teaches the art OF
walking, for 81, at Ocean Grove.
PorAroEs are baked In tho ground at Al.
oioni Mich, 80 intense Is tho heat.
JuD0E GAsLIS, Of Lincoln, Neb., has pro.
aided over thirty-three murder trials.
TEsr examinations show that Q, 900 out Of
tho 1900 Alabama engineers arc color.
blind
FAILURE To yaeeinate is punished nj
Phoenix, Arih, by $50 fine or six months
~ jail.
MARTIN DnxBEiNER, of Hlllsdale, N. Y,
has pig two years old that weighs o0d
pounds:
TnH Kansas corn crop will not be as
large as was anticipated on account OF tho
drought.
BooDLKR MoGAmaLE has sailed from
Qnoboct 10 Gibraltar, He took passage as
an invalid.
Tine PoSt-ofice Department has sonsibiy
refused TO name a Nebraska Post-ofiice
"old Maid.p
TnE w, G. T. o., OF Chicago, will erect
10000 building In that city for National
headquarters.
N. GoLpsMITH, Of Maplowood, Sullivan
County, n. ", has found pctrifed potato
In his garden.
PaVHNKnT has .bcan iatd ..o,,,a ,h :.
Washington Monument and the grading Ia
nearly completed.
CINCINNATI has subscribed suficient
money 10 celebrate hcr centennial ami.
versary next year.
1T isA strange epidemic OF great fires
which has marked this heated torn. Even
tho grass is burned up,
THH travel 10 Alaska ia greater than
ever before known, and II is likely TO In.
crease from year 10 year
TnERE are In Minnesota 1901 licensed
physYciann and 10 unlicensed. or the
licensed l,26s are regulars.
A WAsuiNoToS butcher has invented a
canvas hat for horses 10 keep OF the suns
heat and prevent sunstroke
THnEE ii n church ID the cast end OF Lon
don whore parties so desiring can be mar.
riod for seven pence hai penny.
Mas HKsRI BALDWIN, sixty six, Blrming.
ham, Conn, is suing for divorce from
her twenty ycar.old husband.
THK sugar crop Of tho Sandwich Islands
ia estimated between 5000 and 1000
tons, as against lSO,ooo tons last year.
THn l75 grandchildren OF noted Utah
apostle Of polygamy are all under twenty
nine years OF age, says tho Piocho New
Reoord.
THE salmon pack OF tho Columbia river
IL over $4,000 cascs short OF last years
yield and an advance in prioo may be
looked for.
Nina CRAwToRp, tho Paris correspondent,
is said TO earn $4,000 year by her PEN
the largest sum made by any woman out
Of journalism.
SAVANNAH has company OF female
militia. The company Is composed Of
thirty-two young women, Captainod by
Miss Annie Gooble.
In 1884 Great Britain sent COZ, S9s gallons
Of spirits 10 Western Africa, and Germany
7,l36, 40 gallons. Attic samc time America
scnt P2i ,4i2 gallons.
BROOKLYN has horso.jockey who is
said 70 DO worth too0,ooO, This appears rs
II horse jockeying was almost as good as
running newspaper.
A sYpIcATE OF New York and Pittsburgh
capitalists have purchased one hundred
thousand acres OF pine forest in South
Carolina and Georgia.
Ist ere anything syndicate won't un.
dortakei One of these is just now Offer
ing husbands to one hundred young
women II they VIII go into Northwestern
Texas.
THE doctors have discovered that pcr.
b who attempts 10 commit suicide by
king laudanum can be saved by opening
the windpipe and pumping air artidcially
into the lungs.
THE Oldest bank note In existence is In
the Asiatic Museum, in st. Petersburg. II
is Chinese, and is 1880 years old. 1t was
issued by tho Imperial Bank, and was
written by hand.
A ''PnoFEssoR OF swimming" who adver-
tses to teach the art In six lessons was
rescued from drowning at a seaside resort
few days ago. 1t is surmiscd that he got
beyond his depth
A CRYSTAL OF alum twelve fecthigh and
six feet In diameter was shown at the
royal jubilee exhibition in Manchester. 1t
is OF tho finest quality and is the largest
crystal ever made.
A PILE OF snow was dumped in Franfort
street, New York, the other day, from
warehouse under tho Brooklyn bridge
arches, and the small boys engaged in
regular SNOWFALL fight
FREoKIEs, the Scientific american says,
can not be entirely banished, but wash
made by dissolving three grains Of borax
in five drachms each of rose water and
orange flower water Is said to be excel
lent for them.
IKE WEIR, the puglist known to fame as
tho ''Belfast Spider,n acquired glory in
Boston the other night by thrashing two
men who had insultod colored woman,
which shows that evon pugilists may bo
useful some times.
MRS. LENA HALL, a wrinkled colored wo-
man, recently applied TO the health com
missioner OF st. Louis for burial per-
nit She said that she was lo7 years old,
and could not live much longer She
wanted N attend to her own funeral.
1T is estimated that the total production
OF coffee in the world is about 0OO,0O0 tons
TO CSC, 900 tons, of which Brazil alone pro.
duces between $4,000 and 700 tons and
Java 1000 to $4,000 tons.
THR Gugebec iron mines, of Wisconsin,
have been transferred TO the Bessemei
Consolidated Iron Company, OF New York,
Of which Stephen W. Dorsey is president
The price paid is ss,s2O,ooo.
owISo TO the drought, water is sold by
the barrel in Burlington, nj. Teamsters
charge one dollar and upward for the de-
livery Of the water. Tho city charges IF.
teen cents q losl for the wata- itself